I just checked (in CoMaps): A restaurant around the corner is listed as "Pizza, Vegan, no wheelchair access, outdoor seating". No opening hours, though (but other places have).
> I decided to try something that would probably work: I copied the code from the magazine into Notepad and saved the file as .exe instead of .txt.
Exactly my first attempt to "convert to .exe" as well :)
Browsing through C:\DOTS, I discovered qbasic.exe (a QuickBasic variant without a compiler) and wanted to "compile" (as I now know is the right term) my first, wonky five-liner.
i earned myself a notice in the local newspaper in 8th grade for hacking the public library. what i did: on the PC terminal right click, show source, edit the HTML to leave a "i was here" note, click save :)
To me, these reflections upon my aggressive and violent behavior in a game are much more impactful than games that put me into dilemma situations, where you are already presented with a nicely arranged moral problem in the moment.
These are two distinct techniques and I feel the latter almost always failed to impress me much, while the first one is where I feel caught, even shocked by myself and the cold-bloodiness to (virtually) follow any suggestion to kill.
I understand that you want the location of the photo and not the location of the user uploading that photo, but given that both are identical in many cases, getting the location with the regular geolocation API might be an acceptable solution that is also transparent to the user.
Show a location picker with the user's current location and the option to select an alternative location. Not as smooth as using EXIF data, but doable.
I am SO close to switch to Android to buy and properly use a Pebble watch. I love the hacker attitude, the retro tech, the quirkyness.
Seeing them introducing One More Thing on the other side of the spectrum, deep in big-corp, locked down, consumerist throwaway territory makes me reevaluate that.
I guess they might overestimate the fanboyness of their clientele. I hope enough people find this as laughable as I do and ignore this.
I got an Amstrad PCW handed down to me from my dad as my first PC around the same time.
Booted always with disk 1 and that was Locoscript and learned typing on that thing.
When I discovered there is a second disk that boots you in some dark and hidden alternative mode (read: CP/M) I felt like a hacker.
Hidden inside this cave was the only program the manual mentioned in this section: Logo! I did not know that my PC could display anything except characters and it was. so. amazing. to see self-drawn lines on that thing.
I would say Telegram is communicating their level of encryption pretty good ("client-to-client" and "client-to-server" is a good way to avoid the ambiguity of e2e).
I’m all in for diagrams in discussing software! When there is no whiteboard, I literally draw in the air to explain my point.
However, doing real, orthodox UML/BPMN requires everyone to understand the official notation, the difference e.g. between an „association“ and a „message flow“ (and then the differences between UML 1.4 and 2.0) etc. Do people really work in environments where all stakeholders have that kind of knowledge? Big corps I could imagine, probably where heavy machinery is involved. Aside from those „we build a cruise ship“ megaprojects I have the impression that people say UML and mean the much more approachable „squares connected by diamonds and labeled arrows“-diagrams.
Wondering how no-code tools like this handle those discrepancies between the super-detailed specs and the real world diagrams
> The reality is that we spend FAR more time reading code than writing it. That is why readability is far more important than clever, line saving constructs.
In JS sometimes chain two or three inline-arrow-functions specifically for readability. When you read code, you often search for the needle of "the real thing" in a haystack of data formatting, API response prepping, localization, exception handling etc.
Sometimes those shorthand constructs help me to skip the not-so-relevant parts instead of mentally climbing down and up every sort and rename function.
That being said, I would not want this sentiment formalized in code guidelines :) And JS is not C except both have curly braces.
Just last week I was bitten by a customer’s CSV that failed due to Windows‘ invisible BOM character that sometimes occurs at the beginning of unicode text files. The first column‘s title is not „First Title“ then but „&zwnbsp;First Title“. Imagine how long it takes before you catch that invisible character.
Aside from that: Yes, if CSV would be a intentional, defined format, most of us would do something different here and there. But it is not, it is more of a convention that came upon us. CSV „happened“, so to say. No need to defend it more passionate than the fact that we walk on two legs. It could have been much worse and it has surprising advantages against other things that were well thought out before we did it.